- Bashir confirmed to the incident to colleagues on Friday in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, in a terse statement.
Unknown gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted ten members of the same family in Kaduna State.
Among the kidnapped victims are the wife and two daughters of a Kogi-based journalist, Muhammed Bashir.
His wife and his two daughters arrived in Kaduna earlier on Thursday for a holiday with her (the wife’s) family in a suburb of Kaduna.
Bashir confirmed to the incident to colleagues on Friday in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, in a terse statement.
Bashir, a correspondent with the Nigeria Telegraph, called on his colleagues to remember him in the supplications.
“My dear colleagues, please I need your prayers. My two daughters and their mother, including eight others, were kidnapped yesterday by unknown gunmen in Kaduna where they went for a holiday. Pls pray for me,” he wrote in the Kogi Correspondents’ Chapel WhatsApp platform.
He disclosed that he had reached out to the police and the Department of State Services, and had been assured that steps were being taken to rescue the victims and arrest the kidnappers